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SMART is a monitoring system built into modern hard-drives which monitors various factors that may affect drive reliability, such as read/write errors, bad sectors, high temperature, etc. When these factors exceed a certain value, SMART can predict that the drive is about to fail, and warns the user ...

So I've been attempting to fix a friend's HP laptop (model number unknown) for a few days ago. Hard drive errors. My usual idiot self decided that he wouldn't make SMART testing the first thing he'd ...

I just bought a SSD to replace the HDD in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 3521).
So I migrated the windows partition, root partition of Ubuntu, and make a bcache caching partition for /home which stays on ...

So i have an old hdd that was badsectors and i wrong the following script to write zeros in badsectors that smartctl finds. The question is will this help the read/write errors or it is futile?
the ...

I can use hddtemp to read temperture various usb hdd's using
hddtemp sata:/dev/sdX
and as well smartctl (GsmartControl as well) does work when I use "-d sat" option.
Can I somehow make this a default ...

I have been subjected to an unholy amount of pain from my desktop tonight, including the near-loss of data due to corruption (in the /tmp directory !?) on one disk and erratic behavior from the other ...

Some years ago there was a lively discussion about Ubuntu reducing the hard disk lifespan by operating the hard disk in an aggressive power saving mode on default, which causes an excessive number of ...

I need to configure Smart DNS Proxy Server on my Ubuntu VPS so all people can connect to my VPS DNS and watch website content like overplay.
I need expert help and detailed steps for how to get ready ...

I have been using Win7 ubuntu 12.04 dual boot laptop and one day I got Disk failure imminent message in ubuntu.I have been using Win 7 since then for about 2 months now and havent experienced anything ...

On my server I have a 4 disk RAID-5 configuration. One of the drives fails the S.M.A.R.T. test. The array has not yet been declared as degraded but the disk shows up as needing replacement.
I don't ...

After my 7-month old kicked my wife's laptop off the sofa, I've been in data recovery mode.
Data now recovered, laptop is old and is basically on the verge of being binned.
I decided to try and use ...

I would like to try the smart scopes feature because this would be the only reason for me to upgrade to saucy. is there a way to try the feature (the final version used in saucy) in ubuntu 13.04 ? And ...

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and it seems like my SSD is failing on me.
After an arbitrary amount of time the disk just prints end_request i/o error, dev sdc sector xxx when I enter a command like ls or ...

How can I reset the SMART results so it does not register previous results. My reason is that I was testing the hard drives closed together on a closed case. This made one of the HDD fail the Airflow ...

I'm using Canonical Landscape, and I wondered if there is a way to be automatically notified if the SMART status of a disk deteriorates. I just noticed by chance that the disks started failing in one ...

My SATA drive is from 2009 and has been under some circumstances where it's not "Pleasant" for the drive, such as blackouts (lots of them).
On Ubuntu 12.04 SMART reported 4029 bad sectors. I often do ...

I repeatedly receive a message from Disk Utility on screen, which says "A Hard Disk is reporting health problems."
On clicking the Examine button, I am taken towards a window,which says Disk failure ...

I have a linux installation in a 50GB partition, on an old 80GB sata disk that is starting to show some errors in it's SMART status, and also, it's an old slow disk. So I want to copy it to a newer ...

I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' ...